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Nevertheless, she persisted” may be an inspiring motto in political circles, but insistence and resistance aren’t always great qualities as we age. Learning to give a little, and dig out of certain well-worn ruts, can go a long way.
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Ethics are norms of conduct for distinguishing between right and wrong and between what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior
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The Gita’s portrait of the sage may seem like an idealization. It is not. Anyone who has seen the famous photograph of Ramana Maharshi and looked into those inexpressibly beautiful eyes will know what I am talking about.
Ramana Maharshi is only the most dazzling modern instance of a long tradition in India. It is a tradition with a strongly ascetic avor. This kind of sage barely notices his body and its needs, has no use for money or possessions, and is blithely indierent to art, society, and sexual love, not to speak of life and death. Such dispassion may at rst appear repulsive to some readers. But pure dispassion is a kind of compassion. Here is how Ramana Maharshi expresses it:
When you truly feel equal love for all beings, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop o from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home.
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